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Hi,

I did a site for a friend and ran into a bit of trouble. It seems Firefox and Safari love the site but IE does not. At least not his version of IE which I think is 5.2 or 5.5 and he's on windows.

Short of saying get a better machine dude does anyone have any fixes or run into this before.

I noticed the IE info in the template but my problem is wokring on a MAC I can't see what it's doing to his site till he complains. I am looking to have a friend fire it up on a WINDOWS machine to let me know if he sees anything different.

Any sugesstions?

So here is the URL: www.legeresongs.com

Thanks in advance
Yorgi

Well I only see a little problem in IE 6.0 on widows, there is a space between the header and menu, a little 5px red line about 5px above the menu which looks like it is the top of the menu with the bottom of the header image showing thru.
It looks like you have the Album tag duplicated on the photo pages, see the same images twice once above the page title once below it.

I noticed something else in IE7. The static-width centered main block (as it appears in firefox) isn't rendered correctly in IE. It fills the browser and so repeats your header image on resolutions bigger than 800px. I didn't look at your css, but here's how I do static-width centering.
css: and the html: the css contains 2 different centering methods. the margin-left:auto; thing works in firefox, but not in ie. the text-align:center thing works in ie and not in firefox, so they don't conflict.

sloe

Would it help if I posted the CSS?  It's below.  Also it looks like he's looking at it in IE 5.5!

/*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
  text-align: center;
  font-family: Helvetica, bold;
  font-size: 75.01%;
  line-height: 1em;
}

/*
set font size for all divs,
this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
  font-size: 12px;
}

/*
if img is inside "a" it would have
borders, we don't want that
*/
img {
  border: 0;
}

/*
default link styles
*/
/* set all links to have underline and bluish color */
a,
a:link
a:active {
  text-decoration: underline;
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color. this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #18507C;
}

a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #18507C;                /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}


/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-color: #C3D4DF;
  color: #385C72;
}

/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
  background-color: #555150;
  color: #D1C5A6;
  margin:0px; /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
}

/* center wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
  border: 1px solid black;
  margin: 0 auto;    /* this centers wrapper */
  max-width: 816px; /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
  min-width: auto;
  background-color: #d1c5a6;;
  color: black;
}


/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it
*/

div#header {
  height: 162px; /* adjust according your image size */
  background: url(images/carltop.jpg);         
}

div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: url(images/carltop.jpg);
  display: block;
  height: 162px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

div#search {
  float: right;
  width: 23em;    /* enough width for the search input box */
  text-align: right;
  padding: 0.6em 0 0.2em 0;
  margin: 0 1em;
}

div.breadcrumbs {
  padding: 1em 0 1.2em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
  font-size: 90%;            /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative, this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
  margin: 0 1em;              /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;
}

div#content {
  margin: 1.5em auto 2em 0; /* some air abobe and under menu and content */
}

div#main {
  margin-left: 10%; /* this will give room for sidebar to be on the left side, make sure this space is bigger than sidebar width */
  margin-right: 2%; /* and some air on the right */
}

div#footer {
  clear:both;      /* keep footer below content and menu */
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #d1c5a6; /* same bg color as in header */
}

div#footer p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  padding: 1.5em;      /* some air for footer */
  text-align: center; /* centered text */
  margin:0;
}

div#footer p a {
  color: #fff; /* needed becouse footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
}

/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
  height: 1px;
  margin: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
}

/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
  float: left;
  width: 49%;  /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}




/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {

}

/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
  font-size: 2em;  /* font size for h1 */
  line-height: 1em;
  margin: 0;
}
div#content h2 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-align: left;
/* some air around the text */
  padding-left: 0.5em;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
/* set borders around header */
  border-bottom: 1px solid #e7ab0b;
  border-left: 1.1em solid #e7ab0b;
  line-height: 1.5em;
/* and some air under the border */
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.3em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h4 {
  color: #294B5F;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
div#content h5 {
  font-size: 1.1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
h6 {
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;  /* some air around p elements */
  line-height:1.4em;
  padding: 0;
}
blockquote {
  border-left: 10px solid #ddd;
  margin-left: 10px;
}
pre {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-size: 1.0em;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-style:italic;
}

/* Wrapping text in tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
white-space: pre-wrap;      /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word;      /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 1em;
}

pre {
  border: 1px solid #000;  /* black border for pre blocks */
  background-color: #ddd;
  margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
  padding: 0.5em;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  font-size: 90%;  /* smaller font size, as these are usually not so important data */
}

/* END TEXT */

/* LISTS */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height:1.4em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}
div#main ul li,
div#main ol li {
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}

div#dl dt {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}
div#dl dd {
  margin: 0 0 0 3em;
}
/* END LISTS */

My client's site looks fabulous in Firefox Mac & PC, but the client is using IE 6 on PC, and the whole site looks like a mad woman's breakfast!

I am using Andreas template - 3 columns - which I downloaded from here.

The whole centre column has moved to the bottom of the screen, making the page several screenfulls long.

The right side I have set to show last 3 articles. Instead of just the Summary, the whole articles are appearing!

It looks dreadful ...

I have used CMSMS 1.0.2
Template : andreas01

The default coding is:




The body starts off like this:



   


OK - is there either some html or css which I need to include to make this site render properly in IE for PC?

I've read a bunch of the forum posts but didn't find one [yet] which seemed to be the same problem as I'm having.

Any tips will be ever so gratefully received

Have you used Firefox, with the developers toolbars edit CSS, to make sure the CSS is the same, that linked page shows up fine in IE...

Do you have a link I can look at?...

Hi Mark, I just sent you a private msg.

I also attached the Stylesheet 'Accessibility and cross-browser tools' to the Andreas template.

Do I need to specify anything in it to make it work??

Learning on the hop!

PS - just installed Firefox css toolbar - very cool!!!

Thanks ...

It already had the 'Accessibility and cross-browser tools' CSS...

  oops! sorry - I didn't realise ...

should I 'remove' the stylesheet link from the template? will it cause any probs?